It was a combination of live playing of the guitar (first half) and banjo (second half), with delay lines, plus processed 1-, 2- and 3-bar uni-tone samples from all three instruments that I finger picked earlier in the week, using pitch shifting and time stretching and various DSP effects in Ableton Live to play them back.

The guitar is a 1994 Gibson JR-200 Junior (no pickups), the banjo is a 1995 Bart Reiter Whyte Ladie, and the mandolin is a ~1912 Gibson A1. The original bridge makes it tough to fret, and it is mostly hidden in the background of the piece. AKG Perception 400 condenser mic, Ableton Live 8, used my Roland GR33 guitar synth as a MIDI foot controller, and a ChucK patch to translate its MIDI messages to control Live while I pick.

Here's my set. About 25 minutes into the set, something happened and I had to reconnect. I picked it up from the coda and spliced the two sections together. Other than some fade-ins and fade outs at the beginning and end, it is as performed. The birds and other artifacts of nature performed in real time. So did the planes and cars.

Addendum:
For the introductory improv on the 19 June 2011 episode of Organized Sound with Dr. Steve (Episode # 31), I used the same basic setup as this piece with some patch and settings changes. Although similar, it is a different piece and has more of the dynamic flow I was building towards in the Summer Solstice piece.

Thanks everyone who played and chatted - it was a blast as usual. Lots and lots of great music of all kinds.

Here's my set, featuring some Octatrack sequences that I had pieced together the past couple of weeks, some Nord Modular G2 fast sequences, a lot of plain PEK playing, some Origin pigh-pitched things that was MIDI-routed through ChucK, some VG99 and some plain old geetar.

Here's my Summer Solstice 2011 (winter for me ) set. Thanks everybody for a great event, I really really enjoyed playing this improv piece, and loved everything that I heard from the other artists!

A slightly louder version of this is now available further in the thread p5 thanks I have left both versions in the thread for now for learning purposes for anyone interested in this topic of loudness mastering compression or no compression, dynamic range etc ( and as I only have uploaded one song total at present and will delete prob' the quieter one at a later date.

I am going to check if there is an e-m forum discussion on the above subjects loudnes etc

Used a couple of knifes, had a glass jar with a small steel ball in it as a sort of drum thingie, used a resonator on the iPhone through which I played some acoustic guitar, then a couple of Nord modular patches, partly controlled by a MIDI guitar.

featuring some Octatrack sequences that I had pieced together the past couple of weeks, some Nord Modular G2 fast sequences, a lot of plain PEK playing, some Origin pigh-pitched things that was MIDI-routed through ChucK, some VG99 and some plain old geetar.

Dude, you should totally be a guest on Programmed Hell some time. I think it would be a neat mix.

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